A wildfire raged through a Pacific Palisades residential area on Tuesday afternoon, prompting mandatory evacuations and causing several homes to catch fire. The blaze forced the closure of major roadways, including sections of the 10 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway, as residents fled the danger.
Several homes erupted in flames in a residential area of Pacific Palisades on Tuesday afternoon as a massive wildfire continued to burn uncontrolled. The hillside homes were burning around 2:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of Rimmer Avenue, on the edge of a residential area north of Sunset Boulevard. The houses were among those under a mandatory evacuation order, but it was unclear if any residents were inside.
Meanwhile, sections of the 10 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway were closed to all non-essential traffic to aid in evacuation efforts. But other roads were blocked. Some residents jumped out of their vehicles to get out of danger and waited to be picked up. Kelsey Trainor, who lives in the Highlands above the Pacific Palisades, said the only road in and out of her neighborhood was completely blocked. Ash fell all around them while fires burned on both sides of the road. 'We looked across and the fire had jumped from one side of the road to the other side of the road,' Trainor said. 'People were getting out of the cars with their dogs and babies and bags, they were crying and screaming. The road was just blocked, like full-on blocked for an hour.
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